Pritesh Chothani

Pritesh Chothani a foodie at heart, a budding photographer is a brand manager by profession. He is famous as a participant of Master Chef India’s top ten chefs season 1 in 2010. He completed his schooling from St. Mary’s High School. later he went to Mithibai College of Commerce. From the Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad he got the degree of PGDBM (field of study marketing) in 2006.

He worked as the Deputy Marketing Manager - Air Treatment at Whirlpool Corporation during June 2006- June 2008. There he won ‘Best of the Best Team’ award in marketing for excellent performance in the air conditioner business (2007), ‘Well Done’ award for launching a new sub-category-Room Heaters(2007) and ‘Spot Award’ for excellent performance in Room Heaters Segment(2008).

For 2 years 5 months, he worked as an assistant brand manager - Sprite at Coca-Cola India Inc during June 2008 - October 2010. There he was chosen amongst the top 3 in The Coca-Cola Company’s Worldwide Marketing Excellence Awards for Best Immediate Consumption Programme (2008). In 2009 he was chosen as top 3 in The Coca-Cola Company’s Worldwide Marketing Excellence Awards for Best Marketing Campaign - other Sparkling Beverages.

In 2010 he got a chance to compete with over 50,000 contestants from across the country to demonstrate his cooking skills in Master Chef India. There he got acknowledged as India’s Top 10 Amateur Chefs. This platform gave him a totally new identity as a chef.

He also worked as the Brand Manager of Coca-Cola in Coca-Cola India Inc during October 2010 - November 2011 for one year and two months. From November 2011-September 2012 he worked as The Head of Marketing in Dunkin Donuts Noida, India.

In the year September 2012- October 2013 he worked as the Senior Manager of Red and White and Four Square in the company Godfrey Philips India Ltd Delhi, India. He also worked as the Visiting Faculty in Manipal University Jaipur, Rajasthan, India from August 2016 to October 2016.

Thereafter he worked as the CO-founder at the Four Corners Food Dost Private Limited from January 2014 to November 2016 in Gurgaon, India. Presently he is working as the Cluster Head at Radio Mirchi in Delhi NCR and Rajasthan from November 2016. Through his company Food Dost Sewa he is serving 500 slum kids with a warm meal every day. Everyday warm nutritious meals are being served to underprivileged children, since April 2016.